Volume 40 of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) will premiere at the 2005 ASIST Annual Meeting at the end of October. SLIS Dean Blaise Cronin, ARIST Editor, introduces the volume with reflections on 40 years of ARIST with a special nod to the vision of founding editor Carlos Cuadra. “Since this is an anniversary volume, a little blowing of one’s own trumpet may be permitted”, Cronin writes. According to the most recent ISI data I have seen, ARIST ranks first in terms of its impact factor when compared with more than 50 other serials in its subject group.
ARIST is celebrated for contributing a comprehensive and insightful view of the field of information science and technology. The range of topics varies considerably, reflecting the dynamism of the discipline and the diversity of theoretical and applied perspectives. ARIST continues to cover topics associated with classical information science; Cronin—now marking his fifth year as the editor—has also been selectively expanding its radius in an effort to connect information science more tightly with affiliated academic and professional communities.
The four major sections and 13 chapters of ARIST 40 (2006) are as follows:
Section I: Information and Society
“The Micro- and Macroeconomics of Information” by Sandra Braman
“The Geographies of the Internet” by Matthew Zook
“Open Access” by M. Carl Drott
Section II: Technologies and Systems
“TREC: An Overview” by Donna K. Harman and Ellen M. Voorhees
“Semantic Relations in Information Science” by Christopher Khoo and Jin-Cheon Na
“Intelligence and Security Informatics” by Hsinchun Chen and Jennifer Xu
Section III: Information Needs and Use
“Information Behavior” by Donald O. Case
“Collaborative Information Seeking and Retrieval” by Jonathan Foster
“Information Failures in Health Care” by Anu MacIntosh-Murray and Chun Wei Choo
“Workplace Studies and Technological Change” by Angela Cora Garcia, Mark E. Dawes, Mary Lou Kohne, Felicia M. Miller, and Stephan F. Groschwitz
Section IV: Theoretical Perspectives
“Information History” by Alistair Black
“Social Epistemology and Information Science” by Don Fallis
“Formal Concept Analysis in Information Science” by Uta Priss
More information about ARIST, including previews of upcoming volumes, is available.
Posted October 14, 2005